The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO THE YOUNGERSince it has such a remembrance of the best, such a concern for the future, since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the being which contains all these must be immortal.
More Cato the Younger Quotes
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It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.
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Never travel by sea when you can go by land.
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Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.
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Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.
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The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.
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This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity.
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Do not expect good from another’s death.
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By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,
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The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
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To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.
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Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.
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Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.
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I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.
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